Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[DaniSRB 899]

so 3x3 basket is in

[Dunadan 1,103]

Having reviewed the proposals in full, the Olympic Programme Commission met on 5 May and made a number of recommendations to the IOC EB. Based on these recommendations, the EB took the following decision regarding new events in Tokyo:

EVENTS – Additions unless specified
Events
Sport	Event	#
Aquatics (Swimming)	800m (M) & 1500m (W)	+2
	4x100m Medley Mixed Relay	+1
Archery	Mixed Team Event	+1
Athletics	4x400m Mixed Relay	+1
Basketball	3x3 (M/W)	+2
Boxing	Transfer of two men's events to two women's events	0
Canoe	Transfer of three men's events to three women's events	0
Cycling (BMX)	BMX Freestyle Park (M/W)	+2
Cycling (Track)	Madison (M/W)	+2
Fencing	Team Events (M/W)	+2
Judo	Mixed Team Event	+1
Rowing	Transfer of one men's event to one women's event	0
Sailing	Transfer of Mixed Multihull to Mixed Foiling Multihull	0
Shooting	Transfer of three men's events to mixed events	0
Table Tennis	Mixed Doubles	+1
Triathlon	Mixed Team Relay	+1
Weightlifting	Reduction of one  men’s weight category	-1
TOTAL (net)		+15

Tokyo 2020 was consulted throughout the process and gave its agreement on the principles applied to the review of all events. Together with the IOC, it was agreed that there should be minimal impact on additional venues and athletes, and on the overall competition schedule.

The EB today also approved the recommendations of the Programme Commission with regard to the athlete numbers by sport - as follows:

Athletes – Additions, transfers and reductions
Athletes quotas
Sport	Event	#
Aquatics (Water Polo)	Reduction in Water Polo team size, addition of two women’s Water Polo teams	-18
Aquatics (Swimming)	Reduction of 22 athletes	-22
Athletics	Reduction of 105 athletes	-105
Basketball	Inclusion of 3x3 with 8 teams for each gender, +64 athletes (32W/32M)	+64
Boxing	Transfer of 44 athletes from men to women	0
Canoe	Transfer of 55 athletes to reach gender balance	0
Cycling (BMX Racing)	Transfer of 8 athletes to reach gender balance	0
Cycling (MTB)	Transfer of 8 athletes to reach gender balance in MTB, transfer of 4 male athletes to BMX Freestyle	0
Cycling (Road)	Transfer of 14 men to BMX Freestyle	0
Judo	Transfer of 38 athletes to reach gender balance	0
Rowing	Reduction of 24 athletes and reach gender balance	-24
Sailing	Reduction of 30 athletes and reach gender balance	-30
Shooting	Reduction of 30 athletes and reach gender balance	-30
Weightlifting	Reduction of 64 athletes and reach gender balance	-64
Wrestling	Reduction of 56 athletes across all disciplines and gender balance in Freestyle Wrestling	-56
TOTAL		-285

[bestmen 2,827]

LOL and the athletics lost 105 , stupid decision

 

[DaniSRB 899]

4x400m Mixed Relay in athletics, wtf

[intoronto 5,678]

Wrestling moves from 19/20 per weight category to 16 per weight, just like taekwondo.

[Gianlu33 4,615]

Total balance is 285 athletes less.. very stupid. They will add other events? 

[DaniSRB 899]

so in water polo we will have 12 men's teams and 10 women's?

 

or 12 - 12 and 11 players per team? 

[bestmen 2,827]

plzzzz add the Vovinam Viet Vo Dạo , it's much better and spectacular than karate

[rybak 3,222]

11 minut temu, intoronto napisał:

Wow wrestling and weightlifting got destroyed 

That's deserved

[intoronto 5,678]

1 minute ago, DaniSRB said:

so in water polo we will have 12 men's teams and 10 women's?

 

or 12 - 12 and 11 players per team? 

Yes for first one. 12 men's and 10 women

 

Full Tokyo 2020 program

 

https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document Library/OlympicOrg/Games/Summer-Games/Games-Tokyo-2020-Olympic-Games/Tokyo-2020-event-programme.pdf